Radio: Reporter's Ear

A recording set the size of a folding camera, completely "built-in" save
for a mike on a cord, has joined the parade of postwar dream-gadgets
for the civilian. Powered by a battery, the recorder weighs only three
pounds, picks up "anything the ear can hear." Inventor Marvin Camras of
Chicago's Armour Research Foundation thinks "the average price ought to
be about $50."

Radio and newspaper reporters are the likeliest peacetime users of this
midget. Other possible customers: traveling businessmen, detectives,
blackmailers. "And students who want to sleep in the classroom,"
Inventor Camras suggests.